Autumn delights

Autumn delights

The leaves are changing colors.
Our girls are enjoying it. Our Emily likes to call out the colors as we drive some where, and Amanda likes to kick up the leaves as we take a walk around the block.
At the moms club Fall Festival they got to decorate some small pumpkins and take them home. They seem to love pumpkins. Perhaps it's their shape or their color.
We are thinking of buying one and carving it this year. That should be great fun.

I came across some nice pumpkin story books.
I added them to my "Kids corner" page.

"Five Little Pumpkins"--great for babies and toddlers
"My Jack O'Lantern"--I like how this story teaches about pumpkins and patience
"Too Many Pumpkins" --This story is amusing and fun.

Check them out at: My Kid's Corner

Horse story

by Shannan Hearne


I grew up riding.

When we moved to SC and I was turning 9, my parents bought me a pony, Joker. He was a welsh cross. When I outgrew Joker, we found Ginger. She was an Arab Saddlebred cross I broke and trained hunterjumper. Rode western pleasure to trail ride. We showed in 4-H shows, trail rode all over our county, and spent long pleasant hours just hanging around in the pasture. She was my best friend. The barn I kept her at had several other horses I trained and taught riding lessons on. Ginger was the only one who would come when called, but she would go out and herd the other horses in when I called them all in. When I started college, my parents said if I went any where far away we'd have to sell Ginger. So I went to a local state college. I moved her to a barn closer to my school and continued to ride daily.

Then there was an outbreak of Equine Infectious Anemia in the county. Ginger tested positive. I found an old cattle farm where I could lease pasture to keep her quarrantined from other horses. She lived another 11 years. Never really showed any classic symptoms of EIA. But with age, she began to go downhill. All three of my children learned to ride on Ginger. She continued to be a lesson horse and I taught area children to ride until the last two years of her life. By then, arthritis was setting in and Ginger was taking pain meds twice a day. But being my best friend, we fought the battles of the ailments, of area horsemen petitioning the state to force me to put her down due to the EIA, of summers when there wasn't enough water in the well and it had to be hauled from my house, of her foundering and having to have her feet soaked twice a day in hot water also hauled from home. I worked closely with my vet and we used Equine Massage to treat many of her symptoms. When she was too old to ride, I'd sit on her back and hug her while she grazed in the pasture. AS her days were coming to an end, I agonized over how to know when it was time to call the vet to put her down. Twice I scheduled an appointment and then cancelled because she had rallied. It became difficult for her to stand holding a foot up for the farrier. She would walk down to the woods at the end of the pasture and lean on a tree. It broke my heart.

Now Ginger is buried in the same pasture where she spent the last eleven years of her life. An aged Quarter horse gelding I later adopted is buried beside her.

Today, I long for those pleasant days of horsey smells and horsey rides and horsey games. Ginger remains my best friend. And her pictures are all over the walls of my home.

Shannan T. Hearne
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Thank you, Shannan Hearne, for your horse story submission.

If anyone would like to submit a horse story you can email me at lisa@lisasart.com. Thank you.

Feature Art/Product

"Cantering on the Trail"
Pen and Ink, charcoal

One summer vacation I went to a ranch resort in the Catskills of upper state NY. There were beautiful trail rides up into the the surrounding mountains. One day when I was out taking pictures with my camera a group was coming back from a trail ride. I got a picture of the two head wranglers as they took a short canter down the dirt road.
I then did this drawing.

I donated this drawing to the Churchill Animal Protection Society's 2006 annual auction.
The second annual "Art for the Dogs and Cats" Auction will be held on Friday, October 13, 2006, at the Fallon Convention Center, NV.
CAPS is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter serving Churchill County, Nevada.
Visit Caps at http://www.capsnv.org

Art Exhibit News

“Interpretations”
October 15 – December 31, 2006

The Equine Art Guild announces “Interpretations”, an On-Line Exhibition of work by member artists.
All of the work in this show is derived from photographic references of two members’ horses. One, Doc (Doc’s Way To Go Tivio) is a Registered Quarter Horse, photographed by Member/Photographer Juliet Harrison. The other is Entertainingangels (affectionately called Monster), a Thoroughbred photographed by Member/Painter Linda Shantz.
A great many artists work from reference photographs, for commissions as well as for their own work. This exhibit is designed to showcase the different ways that artists work with the same subject matter-in some cases, even using the same reference image. It will give the viewer an opportunity to see how the member artists reinterpret the material to give the final piece of work their own “voice”.

The Equine Art Guild was formed in 1997. It consists of fine equestrian artists from around the world.

“Interpretations” will run from October 15 until December 31, 2006.
Much of the work exhibited will be available for purchase. The show will be accessible on-line through the Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com.

Equine Art Guild

Have a great day

"pass it on" to a friend.

Sincerely,

Lisa Wald Guarino
Lisa's ART & Horses
181 West Forest Ave.
Pawtucket, RI 02860
lisa@lisasart.com